Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has named Children’s Health executive Michael Wiggins its next president, effective April 8. Wiggins succeeds the retiring Meri Armour, who was with the Memphis hospital for 12 years. He served as senior vice president of health systems and northern market executive for Dallas-based Children’s Health. Wiggins was also administrator of the… Read More
Michael Wiggins comes to Memphis-based Le Bonheur from Children’s Health, a pediatric health care system based in North Texas. A local search committee with members from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, donors and physicians, among others, selected Wiggins from a national search that yielded several candidates from across… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital announced today that Michael Wiggins, MBA, FACHE, will become its next president. He will begin his tenure April 8, 2019. Wiggins comes to Le Bonheur from Children’s Health in Dallas, Texas, where he served as senior vice president of Clinical Operations and the Northern Market and administrator of the Children’s Medical… Read More
Vaccines are safe and save lives, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and a Memphis pediatric doctor, John McCullers, MD, Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, told a Senate health committee Tuesday at a hearing on vaccine-preventable diseases.
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander put the pressure on parents to do what he calls the right kind of research when making decisions about vaccinating their kids. He did so at a senate hearing in response to the measles outbreak in the U.S. Whether it be for religious or medical reasons, or incomplete records in some… Read More
Students attending the University of Tennessee Health Science Center could soon have their first ever on-campus housing option. UTHSC currently does not have on-campus housing, but is hoping to change that through a public-private partnership with Henry Turley Co.
Started in January 2018 through a $350,000 grant from the state, the Family Resilience Initiative trains Le Bonheur pediatricians to identify issues that are getting in the way of children’s health and well-being. “There’s been increasing research and recognition over the past few years that adverse childhood experiences, that kids may be exposed to in… Read More
Logging what you eat and frequency may be the keys to helping you lose up to 10% of your weight according to researchers from the University of Tennessee and other schools.
